Nixon signs tax reform in 1970 shakeout details
President Nixon signs a sweeping tax reform bill with changes affecting exemptions, standard deduction, and tax rates. The plan raises personal exemptions to 750 by 1973, adds an 1100 low income allowance, shifts standard deduction to 15 percent with a 2000 cap by 1973, and limits top earned income rate to 60 percent from 70. It also taxes moving expenses, extends some excise taxes, and introduces a 10 percent minimum tax on certain preferences while easing withholding for part year workers. Social Security benefits rise 15 percent beginning January with payments due in April.
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Washington
Nixon
Weather forecast warns of freezing rain and slick roads
Tonight commuters face freezing rain sleet or snow with temperatures in the 20s. Highways become slippery and hazardous. Wednesday brings cloudy skies and slightly colder conditions with highs in the 20s. Weather details on map page 12.
Nixon Signs Major Tax and Coal Safety Bills
President Nixon signed a wide tax reform and coal safety package, blending tax reductions with limits on loopholes. The measure tightens Social Security benefits, expands personal exemptions, raises the standard deduction, and imposes a new minimum tax on large preferences while trimming charitable deductions for high earners. The administration forecast a net revenue rise over five years, with potential deficits thereafter, and expect to ease some low income relief by 1978.
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Washington
Nixon
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Edwin S. Cohen
Tax Reform Act Yields Mixed Pay Changes for Low Earners
An IRS analysis shows withholding changes under the new Tax Reform Act will raise some weekly take homes for those earning over $7,800 annually while others fall. A $5,000 salary worker would see 6.16 in taxes weekly plus 4.60 in Social Security, with no change in year end.
President signs federal coal mine safety bill with key provisions
President Nixon signed the federal coal mine health and safety bill, praising a provision for federal payments to miners disabled by respiratory ailments as a precedent. The act also limits coal dust exposure, tightens methane controls, increases inspections, requires spark-proof electrical gear, and bans smoking and flame use in mines.
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Harrisburg and Herrin triumph in consolation bracket
In the Carbondale holiday tourney at SIU Arena Harrisburg defeated Mt. Vernon 72-64 led by Cartwright and Winkelman. Herrin toppled Elmhurst 80-64 as Chiaren tone scored 30 for the Tigers while Benton outpaced Salem 63-57 and earned a Wednesday date with Peoria Spalding after Spalding beat Stephen Decatur 70-44.
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Chiarentone
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Officials explain court procedures Rogers taken to Menard
Kenneth Rogers, 29, of Carterville, pleaded guilty to two Christmas Eve strangulation murders of his wife Wilma and Barbara Case. Judge John Clayton gave concurrent 75 to 100 year sentences and Rogers was moved to Menard Penitentiary with parole eligibility in about 11 years and 3 months. Prosecutors and defense described Rogers as competent. officials discussed psychiatric evaluation and rights waivers. Rogers awaits grand jury action on a third murder charge and was transferred from Jackson County jail to Marion for court, then back to Murphysboro.
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Menard Penitentiary
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Rogers Trailer
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John Clayton
Kenneth Powless
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Powless
Ponyless
Williamson County
James Floyd Dodder
West Frankfort
Menard
del Las Edward Lee
Marian West
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Johnston City
Dodd
State Supreme Court
Morgan
Kenneth Hubler
Hubler
Jackson County
Lisa Levering
Carbondale
Murphysboro
Levering
Tuckson County
Nominees Named for-Minors Constitutional Convention Committees
Chicago news service reports 24 nominees for nine regular and three supportive committees of the Minors Constitutional Convention announced at a Chicago press conference by President Samuel W. Witwer. Names list chairmen and vice chairs by committee. central and southern nominees prominent. three supportive committees detailed. The nominees will be presented to the full convention for approval next week and meet Witwer to select further committee members. The convention reconvenes in Springfield Tuesday.
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Samuel W. Witwer
Elmer Gertz
James Kemp
Paul E. Mathias
Bloomngton
Anne H. Evans
Des Plaines
Thomas J. McCracken
iRiver Forest
Robert R. Canfield
Rockford
Kenil, Worth
David Davis
Bloomington
Wayne W. Whalen
Hanover
Lewis E. Wilson
Moline
Witwer
Springfield
Debutante Ball Sees Tricia Nixon Attend With Escort
Tricia Nixon and escort Edward F. Cox watched as 62 debutantes bow at the 15th International Debutante Ball in the Waldorf Astoria ballroom. Cox, described as a Harvard law student, and Nixon publicly insisted they are just good friends. The event drew 130 foreign, 10 New York state, and 39 other state debutantes among more than 100 guests at a 460 plate affair.
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New York
Tricia Nixon
Edward F. Cox
Miss Nixon
Cox
Harvard Law
Mammoth Grand Ballroom
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
New York State
Diagnostic tests for prisoner Kenneth Rogers at Menard Penitentiary
Warden Elza Brantley said incoming prisoner Kenneth Rogers, 29, will undergo about two weeks of diagnostic tests to determine placement. Rogers, committed April 4, 1961 as sexually dangerous, was released in 1964 but revoked, discharged in 1965, then returned in 1966 for aggravated battery with a three to five year term, reportedly as a cook on his record.
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Menard Penitentiary
Kenneth Rogers
Brantley
Rogers
Menard
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